dance _ FLOW

“Time slows down. Self vanishes.

Action and Awareness merge.

Welcome to Flow.”

_Steven Kotler

When we focus on what we are doing, what we are doing becomes our purpose. It is as simple as that. On the other hand when we are focusing on purpose as an end goal means that we miss out experiencing the joy of doing – of living. Life becomes about focusing on specific moments of achievement which usually means that the rest of the time we are stressing and striving to achieve these. This way we miss out on the pleasure we can derive from living moment by moment engaged in our passion. When we turn our attention towards the journey, the becoming, the engaging with life, we enter into a state of flow which for many becomes blissful.

Dance is both a beautiful metaphor for this AND at the same time offers us practical experience. When the opening notes of the music begin and we take those first steps into the dance, our thoughts are not on the end chords that will bring our dance to some predetermined finale. Instead, we allow our hearts to open, feeling the beauty of each note, allowing our bodies to respond, our minds to quieten, and our souls to soar. When we surrender ourselves to the dance thus, we become the music, we become the dance, and we flow into that ecstatic space that is our COSMIC FLOW.

_Christos Daskalakos